The MATRIX: A Novel Controller for Musical Expression
This provides a novel interface for musicians and hobbyists to enhance musical expression, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing tangible and gestural input concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of creating an intuitive musical interface for both amateurs and professionals by introducing the MATRIX, a 3-dimensional tangible controller that allows users to manipulate sound parameters through expressive gestures, such as controlling granular synthesizer grains for sonic sculpting.
The MATRIX (Multipurpose Array of Tactile Rods for Interactive eXpression) is a new musical interface for amateurs and professionals alike. It gives users a 3- dimensional tangible interface to control music using their hands, and can be used in conjunction with a traditional musical instrument and a microphone, or as a stand-alone gestural input device. The surface of the MATRIX acts as a real-time interface that can manipulate the parameters of a synthesis engine or effect algorithm in response to a performer's expressive gestures. One example is to have the rods of the MATRIX control the individual grains of a granular synthesizer, thereby "sonically sculpting" the microstructure of a sound. In this way, the MATRIX provides an intuitive method of manip